480 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. "No. 3, 



with age, puberulous toward the apex, the branches cymose ; the 

 flowers at the apices, "5 in. long, the pedicel shorter; bract ovate- 

 lanceolate, nerved, puberulous. Sepals lanceolate. Petals longer thnn 

 the sepals, linear-lanceolate, deflexed from the middle. Stamens about 

 9, one longer than the others. Fruit 1 in. long ; its peduncle large, 

 fleshy, dark-coloured. Jacq. Ann. I, 121, t. 35; DC. Prod. II, 62; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 312; Wall. Cat. 990; Wight and Am. Prodr. I, 

 168 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. 40 » Dalz. and Gibs. Comb. Flor. Strppl. 

 18; Griff. Notul. IV, 408, t. 565, f. 3 e. f. ; Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. IT, 

 20; Bedd. PL Sylv. t. 163; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 310 ; Engler 

 in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 219.— Rheede Ilorfc. Mai. Ill, t. 54. 



In all the Provinces, but always near villages and probably planted. 

 A native of tropical America. 



5. Gluta, Linn. 



Trees with caustic juice. Leaves crowded at the ends of the 

 branchlets, short-petioled, simple, oblong, coriaceous. Panic 1 es axil- 

 lary and terminal. Flowers small, hermaphrodite. Calyx spathaceous, 

 bursting irregularly, caducous. Petals 4-6, adnate to the disc, imbri- 

 cate. Disc elongate, rarely short. Stamens 4-6, inserted on the disc, 

 filaments capillary. Ovary sessile on the disc or stipitate, oblique, 1- 

 celled ; style lateral, filiform, stigma simple ; ovule solitary, pendulous 

 from a basal funicle. Drupe sub-ligneous, stalked, dry, more or less 

 irregularly globose, irregularly tubercled or ridged ; the endocarp coria- 

 ceous, connate with the testa, juicy : cotyledons fleshy, large, connate : the 

 radicle short and incurved. — Dxsteib. About six species all either 

 Malayan or Burmese. 



Calyx only about one-fourth of the length of the 

 petals, glabrous ; petioles short ('3 to '6 in. 

 long) f ... ... ... ... 1. G. BenijJtas. 



Calyx half as long as the petals. 



Calyx glabrous ; petioles slender, *6 to 1 in., 



long, ovary obliquely ovoid ... ... 2. G. elegans. 



Calyx tomentose ; ovary obliquely sub-reni- 

 form-orbicular, tubercled, glabrous ; petioles 

 very short ("1 to '35 in.) ... ... 3. G. eoarctata. 



Calyx pubescent ; ovary obovoid-rotund, tomen- 

 tose; petioles - 6 or "7 in. bixvad, channelled ... 4. G. JVrayi. 

 1. Gluta Benghas, Linn. Mant. 293. A tree. Leaves oblanceolate- 

 oblong, the apex broad and rounded, rarely with a blunt apiculus ; 

 gradually narrowed in the lower half to the short narrow channelled 

 petiole ; both surfaces shining and reticulate j main nerves 18 to 20 



